"I was in the middle of teaching the difference between knowledge and belief when my cell phone buzzed in my pocket. It was a call from the dean of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas College of Liberal Arts. The dean informed me that he was very sorry but, barring an unlikely immediate solution to the state’s financial crisis, the university had decided to eliminate the Philosophy Department, which I chair."
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Boston Review — Todd Edwin Jones: Budgetary Hemlock (UNLV, philosophy, budget cuts)
Boston Review — Todd Edwin Jones: Budgetary Hemlock (UNLV, philosophy, budget cuts):
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